Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

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Have never owned an Apple product – but was actually considering purchase despite the premium price.

But given recent Apple “control” activities…have pretty much decided we won’t purchase a product unless title and “right for use” pass immediately to purchaser immediately following transaction. Won’t finance my own prison. “Public” source is often clunky – but it’s mine.

“…out of the seventh-floor window of one of Foxconn’s dormitories in Shenzhen.

Foxconn is the Taiwanese company, also known as Honhai, which manufactures Apple’s iPhone and iPod, as well as goods for just about every major technology company, including Sony, Nintendo, HP and so on.

Thanks, Barry. A nice reminder that no good deed goes unpunished and no idea for organizing info too useful to be stomped on.

@subscriptionblocker— good thing that you came here and found out about the “control” activities. Yes, now *I* can see ‘em too: keep the chart at minimum magnification and turn your head about 135 degrees counter-clockwise. You can practically hear Revolution #9′s Satanic Message as you stare at the Picasso-esque figure meant to control your mind. But ps: what product are you saying is very much like the iPad in form or function, let alone being able to compare pricing? (Certainly not the Joojoo or the 2-screen Android reader that crashes every few minutes. Was it the HP FrankenSlate? It’s been canceled.) … Or re: the iPhone: what phone has been for sale for a couple of years that has the easy browsing, synchronization and app store? If you’re comparing it against announced, but not-yet-for-sale devices, what pricing are you holding back from us?

@ezduzit, your otherwise somewhat off-topic nexus info is for a deprecated product. If you hurry, or buy a used one on eBay (lots of ‘em for some reason!), you’ll still have to contract separately for voice or data, and don’t count on support — as you know, it has been an embarrassment to Google. So it’s not clear what it has to do with low-cost and speedy music downloads, portable internet, voice services, the zillions of innovative apps that bowed on iPhone, and a few of which are shown in the diagram. But yes, it IS about a device that makes a friendly bulge in a pocket. I guess maybe that COULD BE what the chart is about, to a 2-year-old.

@MarkEH— no, FoxConn is in the top left of the chart. But yes, the chart omits the work that Foxconn does for Sony, Nintendo, HP et al. You know, if you have some evidence of Cupertino’s policies affecting Foxconn’s employees in ways that “Palo Alto’s” or “Minato’s” do not, it’s really your obligation as a citizen to inform the world. Perhaps Mr. Jobs _personally_ was behind the grassy knoll. Thanks in advance for your exceptionally useful insight, even if it suggests that a communist country might have been led down the road to Hell by the various capitalist companies you identify.

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